Lindsay Sally, Ragunathan Sharmigaa, Fuentes Kristina, Li Yiyan
Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Disabil Rehabil. 2024 Jul;46(15):3266-3285. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2023.2246011. Epub 2023 Aug 16.
Accessible housing is a fundamental human right and yet many children and youth with disabilities live in inaccessible, insecure, unaffordable and poor quality housing. The aim of our study was to understand the barriers and facilitators to obtaining accessible housing among children, youth and young adults with disabilities and their families.
We conducted a scoping review involving seven international literature databases from 2000 to 2022 that identified 38 studies meeting our inclusion criteria.
The reviewed studies involved 10 countries over a 22-year period. Our review emphasized the following key trends: (1) barriers to obtaining accessible homes (i.e. common types of accessibility barriers, rates of inaccessible housing, factors affecting home accessibility), and negative impacts of inaccessible housing; and (2) rates and facilitators to obtaining accessible housing (i.e., common types of home modifications, enablers of home modifications) and positive impacts of accessible housing.
Our findings highlight the barriers and enablers of obtaining accessible housing among children, youth and young adults with disabilities and their families and the critical need to support them in securing appropriate housing.
无障碍住房是一项基本人权，但许多残疾儿童和青少年居住在无障碍设施不足、不安全、负担不起且质量不佳的住房中。我们研究的目的是了解残疾儿童、青少年和青年及其家庭在获取无障碍住房方面的障碍和促进因素。
我们进行了一项范围综述，涉及2000年至2022年的七个国际文献数据库，确定了38项符合我们纳入标准的研究。
综述的研究在22年期间涉及10个国家。我们的综述强调了以下关键趋势：（1）获取无障碍住房的障碍（即无障碍障碍的常见类型、无障碍住房的比例、影响住房无障碍性的因素）以及无障碍住房的负面影响；（2）获取无障碍住房的比例和促进因素（即住房改造的常见类型、住房改造的促成因素）以及无障碍住房的积极影响。
我们的研究结果突出了残疾儿童、青少年和青年及其家庭在获取无障碍住房方面的障碍和促成因素，以及支持他们获得合适住房的迫切需求。
